The Gone Girl Backlash – a feminist review of a movie – that men appreciated

[Anonymous 13]

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2014/oct/07/gone-girl-backlash-david-fincher-misogynist-feminist

 

Here’s an excerpt from the review of the movie:

Even the men are at it.  In the Guardian, David Cox, the writer and TV producer, worries that the film could bolster its misogynistic viewers. “Women, some seem to believe, are self-serving, venomous and deceitful but can get away with whatever they want. It’s this outlook that Amy’s adventures could foster.”

As I figured out, why yes…yes they do.  So screw the journalists, writer, or whatever the ‘person’ who wrote this article thinks they are.

 
It goes on:
But writing (mansplaining?) on the news site Vox, Todd Van Der Werff proclaims Gone Girl “perhaps the most feminist mainstream movie in years, a forthright depiction of the ways that society controls women and forces them into certain roles, then lets men basically do whatever they want.” He goes on to say: “In destroying her husband’s life, she’s symbolically taking back power for women everywhere.” Which seems a little overblown, when most of the feminists I know just want, you know, equality.
Flynn, who identifies as a feminist, has become used to addressing accusations that she is anti-feminist. In an interview with the Guardian last year, she questioned whether feminism is “really only girl power, and you-go-girl, and empower yourself, and be the best you can be? For me, it’s also the ability to have women who are bad characters … the one thing that really frustrates me is this idea that women are innately good, innately nurturing. In literature, they can be dismissably bad – trampy, vampy, bitchy types – but there’s still a big push back against the idea that women can be just pragmatically evil, bad and selfish … I don’t write psycho bitches. The psycho bitch is just crazy – she has no motive, and so she’s a dismissible person because of her psycho-bitchiness.”

Sharing that view in the New Statesman, Rhiannon Lucy Coslett writes: “By using society’s propensity to pigeonhole women as vulnerable victims against her drunken sexist of a husband, you could argue that [Amy Dunne] is taking back the power in her relationship. As a woman, she has been forced to embody a succession of tedious female stereotypes, but she twists this oppressive force in order to get her own way.”

 
What a confusing illogical spiel of rhetorical diatribe – self refuting circular thinking – words words words full of sound and fury like a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing.

 

[FermatParticipant 3478]

Gone Girl is a movie in which the entire scheme of the wife is something nearly every married woman on the planet wishes she could do to her husband to “prove his loyalty and love” to her. The only thing holding them back is reputation, time, money, energy, and lack of planning ahead.

 

I have discovered a truly remarkable list of reasons why women are not necessary for a happy life, but alas this margin is too small to contain it.

[RoyDalParticipant]

Anonymous wrote:

“Women, some seem to believe, are self-serving, venomous and deceitful but can get away with whatever they want. It’s this outlook that Amy’s adventures could foster.”

Yep, yet another robot in kill all males mode. I wish the factory would stop installing that option, but it seems they all come that way.

“I have my babies now, so you men go off and hunt dangerous beasts or fight a war or something: I don’t need to use you anymore. Oh, leave enough behind to make sure I get fed and clothed. The rest of you can crawl off and die.”

Society asks MGTOWs: Why are you not making more tax-slaves?

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